Balancing cost and precision in exposure assessment studies

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-45

  Lemasters, Grace Kawas ^a   Shukla, Rakesh ^a   Li, Yuhua David ^b   Lockey, James Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Gtr Cincinnati Occup Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING;

AIRCRAFT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SOLVENTS;

EID: 0030046585     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199601000-00015     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Rappaport SM. Exposure assessment of strategies. In: Rappaport SM, Smith TJ, eds. Exposure Assessment for Epidemiology and Hazard Control. Chelsea, Michigan: Lewis Publishers; 1991:219-249.
2. Oldham PD, Roach SA. A sampling pro cedure for measuring industrial dust exposure. Br J Ind Med. 1952;9:112-119.
3. Corn M, and Esman NA. Workplace exposure zones for classification of employee exposures to physical and chemical agents. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J. 1979;40: 47-57.
4. Nicas M, Simmons BP, Spear RC. Environmental versus analytical variability in exposure measurement. Am Ind Hyg Assoc. 1991;52:553-557.
5. Nicas M, Spear R. A task-based statistical model of a worker's exposure distribution. Part I. Description of the model. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J. 1993;54:211-220.
6. Nicas M, Spear R. A task-based statistical model of a worker's exposure distribution. Part II. Application to sampling strategy. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J. 1993;54: 221-227.
7. Samuels SJ, Lemasters G, Carson C. Statistical methods for describing occupational exposure measurements. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J. 1985;46:427-433.
8. Petersen MR, Sanderson WT, Lenhart SW. Application of a pilot study to the development of an industrial hygiene sampling. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J. 1986;47: 655-658.
9. Snedecor GW, Cochran WG. Statistical Methods. 6th ed. New York: Iowa State University Press; 1967:279.
10. Francis M, Selvin S, Spear R, et al. The effect of autocorrelation on the estimation of workers' daily exposure. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J. 1989;50:37-43.
11. Kish L. Survey Sampling. New York: John Wiley; 1965:254-268.
12. Efron B, Tibshirani R. Bootstrap methods for standard errors, confidence intervals, and other measures of statistical accuracy. Stat Sci. 1986;1:54-77.
13. Searle SR, Casella G, McCulloch CE. Variance Components. New York: John Wiley; 1992:15-18.